U.S. futures: S&P -30.25, Dow Jones -279, NDX -77 and Russell 2000 -16 with fair value lower. Japan and most of Asia lower, China closed for Chinese New Year still but Hong Kong Open and Europe lower.
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We are going to highlight unusual options activity as well going forward. The third column from the left will highlight such outliers. iShares MSCI Emerging Index Fund ETF (EEM) had unusual volume and excess put action for the third day in a row. No ETFs had unusual call action.
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We are going to highlight unusual options activity as well going forward. The third column from the left will highlight such outliers. iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund ETF (EFA) and iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) had unusual volume and excess put action. No ETFs had unusual call action.
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In After Hours Trading: IPOs on deck this week so far: Affirmed Therapeutics and ReWalk Robotics. Secondaries on deck this week: ASTM SNAK.
In After Hours Trading (Best to Worst absolute beats/misses [+.02 or greater/-.02 or worse]): none of note.
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We are going to highlight unusual options activity as well going forward. The third column from the left will highlight such outliers. SPY had unusual volume and excess put action. This is the third day in a row we have seen unusual put action on SPY. The doubters of the rally are clear and present which means we move higher. Options volume continues to come in very light in the dog days of summer.
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US futures: S&P 500 +4.50, Dow Jones +45 and NDX +13 with fair values lower helping gains. Asia and Europe higher. Copper higher with silver and gold higher. WTI Crude and Brent Oil Futures higher. Natural Gas is lower. $ is lower vs Euro, lower vs. Pound and higher vs. Yen. US 10 year Treasury yield -1. Prices as of 7:30 a.m. EDT THERE WILL BE NO MARKET MATTERS NEXT WEEK AS WE WILL BE ON VACATION. IT WILL RETURN AUGUST 25th.
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